Dr. Richard Krugman Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) announced the names of 64 new members, including Dr. Richard D. Krugman, dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Dr. Krugman’s induction next year will bring the total number of CU faculty in the IOM to 11. Most recently Dr. Robert Freedman, chair of psychiatry and professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at CU, was elected to the IOM in 2004 and is being inducted at a ceremony this evening. Other CU faculty in the IOM are Frederick Battaglia, MD; John Conger, PhD; Larry Green, MD; Richard Johnston, MD; Spero Manson, PhD; Theodore Puck, PhD; Robert Schrier, MD; James Strain, MD; and David Talmadge, MD.
Dr. Krugman was nominated for his international prominence in the field of child abuse. Prior to becoming dean in 1992, Dr. Krugman, a professor of pediatrics, served as director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1981-1992. He has earned many honors in the field of child abuse and neglect, and headed the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect from 1988-1991.
“ As dean of the CU School of Medicine, Dick Krugman has led the school to thrive in all of its education, clinical and research mission areas,” said University of Colorado Denver Chancellor Dr. James Shore. “In addition to his successes as an administrator, his contributions to the field of child abuse will impact generations to come.”
Dr. Krugman is also president of University Physicians, Inc., the CU School of Medicine faculty practice plan. He is a graduate of Princeton University and earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, he completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Following a two-year appointment in the early 1970s with the Public Health Service at the National Institute of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Krugman joined the CU faculty in 1973. He went back to the Washington, D.C., area in 1980 as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and served for a year as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger of Minnesota.
He has authored more than 100 original papers, chapters and editorials and four books and recently stepped down after 15 years as editor-in-chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal. He serves on the boards of trustees of Denver Health, Princeton University, the Hasbro Children’s Foundation and the Kempe Children’s Foundation.
